Archive for the ‘Sports Illustrated’ tag

* The autoblogosphere went a little nuts this week when photos and video of Kim Jong Il’s funeral procession were released, showing the North Korean dictator being hauled to his final rest in a Lincoln hearse. Mike Davis over at The Detroit Bureau wondered exactly how the Lincoln got to the isolated country, and came up with what he believes to be the answer.

* Axis of Oversteer this week posted a brief story about one particular Ferrari 857S, chassis number 0588, which had a colorful history that didn’t include much of the racing it was built for.

* Back in April 1961, Sports Illustrated took some time to look into this whole hot-rodding craze sweeping the country, and as we learned this week from Ryan at The Jalopy Journal, the entirety of that article is now online.

* When we took a look at the Besasie X-3 earlier this year, we went through our Mechanix Illustrated collection looking for the earlier article that MI had done on the Besasie X-2. It didn’t turn up in our collection, but it did turn up in the collection of Charlie from Modern Mechanix, who posted the article this week.